Obtaining/Using USGS Satellite Images

MalcolmTex

Posted 01 October 2012 - 01:35 PM

MalcolmTex

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Hi everyone, I am brand new to this forum. I hope someone here can help me. I am not a map maker, but an author. I create
and publish guidebooks for hiking and mountain biking. As part of a new book, I would like to grab satellite imagery, possibly from the USGS EarthExplorer site (?) of certain areas of forest lands etc areas covered in the book. I would then label them in Illustrator for eventual use in InDesign.

I am having a really hard time grabbing the exact hi rez images I want, and am exasperated. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Bryan Swindell

Posted 02 October 2012 - 11:39 AM

Bryan Swindell

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Hi everyone, I am brand new to this forum. I hope someone here can help me. I am not a map maker, but an author. I create and publish guidebooks for hiking and mountain biking. As part of a new book, I would like to grab satellite imagery, possibly from the USGS EarthExplorer site (?) of certain areas of forest lands etc areas covered in the book. I would then label them in Illustrator for eventual use in InDesign.

I am having a really hard time grabbing the exact hi rez images I want, and am exasperated. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Hi there, and welcome. Could you let us know what workflow you have tried, and what obstacles you are running into? A lot of us use EarthExplorer and could probably help. It's also possible that you may not need EE and could benefit from other sources of imagery.